Privacy Policy

Effective as of: April 2, 2011

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.MindLeapTech.com, a website owned and operated by Mind Leap Technology. If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy, you should contact us by visiting the Contact Us page found on the Mind Leap Technology website.

Information Collection and Use

Mind Leap Technology collects information from our users at several different points on our website. Mind Leap Technology is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways other than as disclosed in this statement.

Cookies

Mind Leap Technology may deposit cookies on users’ hard drives. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. By setting a cookie on our site, a user does not have to log in a password more than once and saves time while on our site. Users who reject the cookie may still use Mind Leap Technology, but they may be limited in some areas of our site.

Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience. Some of the information about how our users experience our site, such as page views and specific pages visited, is logged by a third-party marketing company on our behalf, using cookies.

Mind Leap Technology may work with third-party companies to serve ads when you visit www.MindLeapTech.com. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to www.MindLeapTech.com in order to provide advertisements on www.MindLeapTech.com, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please submit an inquiry via the Contact Us page at www.MindLeapTech.com.

Log Files

We may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Sharing

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and sponsors. This is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

We use third-party vendors to provide services on the website, such as sending email messages to subscribers. The information that a user submits on the site will be provided to our vendor so that we may send Mind Leap Technology communications to users who have ‘opted in’ to receive them. We may share your email address with our partners to offer you programs and services we are jointly promoting. You may opt-out of these communications at any time. Please note, however, if such communications include a link to a vendor’s website or a co-branded partner page and you submit personal information to such vendor’s website or a co-branded partner page, then the privacy policies and practices of such vendor’s website or a co-branded partner page governs the use of your personal information.

We may, however, release information provided by a user to the extent it is required to be disclosed pursuant to a valid order or requirement of a governmental agency or court.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Mind Leap Technology is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Newsletters

If a user wishes to subscribe to our RSS feed, newsletter or other email services, we may ask for contact information such as name and email address. This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. If requested, it is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as child’s grade level or ZIP code) but encouraged so that we can provide more personalized service.

From time to time, Mind Leap Technology may email our newsletter subscribers a request to complete user surveys and/or events that we believe are of interest. This may include promotions from a related third-party sponsor.

Choice/Opt Out

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletters or other communications can unsubscribe using the tools provided in every email message we send.

User Surveys

From time to time, we request information from users and newsletter subscribers via surveys. Participation in these surveys is voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as ZIP code, grade level). Contact information may be used to notify winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Tell a Friend

If users elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Mind Leap Technology will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Mind Leap Technology stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact Mind Leap Technology  to request the removal of this information from our database.

Security

Mind Leap Technology has implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. When users submit sensitive information via the website, Mind Leap Technology uses commercially reasonable efforts to protect their information both online and offline. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. Thus, you acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.

Compromise of Security

In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, Mind Leap Technology will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Statement, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Correction/Updating Personal Information

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us.

Notification of Changes

As we continue to develop our website, this privacy policy likely will change. We will post all changes to this policy on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the policy’s effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. You agree to review this policy periodically since such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon posting and your subsequent use after such posting shall conclusively be deemed to be acceptance by you of such changes, modifications or deletions.

A Notice About Our Advertisers

Mind Leap Technology allows advertising by third parties. Mind Leap Technology does not control linking practices of advertisers or sponsors and does not monitor or claim responsibility for any content or privacy practices of such website. Once you have clicked on an advertisement and have left the Mind Leap Technology site, you must read the privacy policy of the advertiser or sponsor to see how your personal information will be handled.

Mind Leap Technology may offer contests, sweepstakes, and promotions that are sponsored by third-party advertisers or sponsors. These third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the activity. Mind Leap Technology does not control the third parties’ use of information.

Mind Leap Technology may use an advertising server developed by a third party to display ads on our site. Some of these ads may contain cookies that are set by third parties (advertisers, sponsors). We do not have access to these cookies or any information that they contain. The Mind Leap Technology privacy policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected from you.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

A Notice About External Links

You will find links from Mind Leap Technology to independently owned, controlled, and/or managed website whose content we believe will be of possible interest and value to our visitors. Additionally you’ll see links from advertisers, sponsors and other partners that may use Mind Leap Technology’s logo as part of a co-branding agreement.

In many cases, these links represent cooperative projects or mutual links established with the organizations connected with these sites. We don’t control the content of these links. These other sites may send you their own cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information. While we identify sponsor and advertiser areas of our websites, we do not control these cookies or the content of these third parties.

Mind Leap Technology may partner with other companies to provide certain services. In some cases, you may see Mind Leap Technology’s logo on another company’s site. Mind Leap Technology does not share any of your personally identifiable information with these partners and they do not share any information with us.

Once you leave our servers (you can generally tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from that site’s home page, you should contact the site directly for more information.

We specifically recommend that parents or teachers monitor any new sites before children connect to them.

Public Forums

Mind Leap Technology makes it possible for our users to share information through options such as reviews and blog comments. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Consequently, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Mind Leap Technology does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information through the website from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the website at any time or in any manner. If Mind Leap Technology learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected through the website without verified parental consent, then Mind Leap Technology will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

Notification Procedures

It is the policy of Mind Leap Technology to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to our customers or website users, via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our website page, www.MindLeapTech.com, as determined by Mind Leap Technology in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Mind Leap Technology reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our customers or website users.

Updated April 2, 2011


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